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There is a Station Q seminar weekly at 2:15pm in Elings Hall 2250 (directly north of KITP,) for which they have a calendar.
Leon Balents holds group meetings on Fridays at 1PM.
There is a Google calendar called UCSB Condensed Matter listing condensed matter seminars. (Google calendars' help.)

Week of January 19-23

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Wed, Jan 21
 10:00 am
 SSR
 All participants
 Organizational Meeting
Wed, Jan 21
 11:00am
 SSR
 Paco Guinea
 Some theoretical challenges in Graphene
Thur, Jan 22
 10:00am
 Aud
 Ying Ran
 Helical metal inside a topological band insulator
 Physics Department Talk
Thur, Jan 22
 11:00am
 SSR
 Dmity Abanin
 Long-range interactions between adatoms in graphene
Thur, Jan 22
 3:30pm
 South Hall 6635
 Edward Frenkel
 Langlands program and mirror symmetry I
 UCSB Distinguished Lecture in the Mathematical Sciences
Fri. Jan. 23
 10:30AM
 Tower Room
 Luis Brey, Paco Guinea, and Hsiu-Hau Lin
 Informal session on "Impurity States in Graphene"
 All participants invited!
Fri. Jan. 23
 3:30PM
 South Hall 6635
 Edward Frenkel
 Langlands program and mirror symmetry II
 UCSB Distinguished Lecture in the Mathematical Sciences

Week of January 26-30

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon., Jan 26
 11:00 am
 SSR
 Jim Eisenstein
 "Chiral Heat Transport in the QHE"
Tues, Jan 27
 10:00am
 SSR
 Jason Ho
 "Overview of the Quantum Simulation Project"
Tues. Jan. 27
 1:30M
 Tower Room
 Hsiu-Hau Lin, Paco Guinea
 Informal session on "Impurity States in Graphene", Part II
Wed. Jan. 28
 10:00am
 Tower Room
 Herb Fertig, Ganpathy Murthy, Jinwu Ye
 Informal session on Bilayer Exciton Condensates
 B=0 and nu=1
Thur, Jan 29
 10:00am
 SSR
 Naoto Nagaosa
 "Kondo Effect and Spin Hall Effect in Au Metal"
Fri. Jan. 30
 10:00am
 Tower Room
 Paco Guinea, Herb Fertig, Ganpathy Murthy
 Informal session on "Impurity States in Graphene", Part III; "Bilayer Exciton Condensates" , Part II

Week of February 2 - 6

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon., Feb 2
 1:45-3:15PM
 Tower Room
 Herb Fertig, Lloyd Engel
 Informal session on "Pinning in Quantum Hall Systems"
Tues, Feb. 3
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Lloyd Engel, NHMFL
 "Experiments on Pinning Modes in Quantum Hall Systems"
 Our experimentalist of the week
Tues, Feb. 3
 4PM
 Broida, 1640
 Cenke Xu, Harvard
 "Nematic and Magnetic Orders in Fe-Based Superconductor"
 Physics Dept. colloquium
Wed. Feb. 4
 10:00AM
 Tower Room
 Ganpathy Murthy, Markus Kindermann
 Informal session on BIlayers (III), and Zero and One Dimensional Systems
Thur, Feb. 5
 11:00AM
 SSR
 Jason Alicea
 "New puzzles in bismuth subjected to strong magnetic fields"
 Note time and location.
Thur, Feb. 5
 1:30PM
 SSR
 Henrik Johannesson, Nancy Sandler
 Informal session on 0 and 1D systems (II)
 Note time and location
Fri, Feb. 6
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Chetan Nayak
 "Non-Abelian Topological States and Quantum Computation.'
 Note location

Week of February 9 - 13

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon, Feb. 9
 12:15PM
 Aud
 Sankar Das Sarma
 “Low Dimensional Electron Systems: A Landscape of Graphene, Quantum Hall Effects, MOSFET, Luttinger Liquid, and Beyond”



 Director's Luncheon Talk
Tues, Feb. 10
 10:00AM
 SSR
 HongWen Jiang
 "Probing Collective States in a Two-subband Electron System"
 Our experimentalist of the week
Wed, Feb 11
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Peter Silvestrov, Ganpathy Murthy
 Informal session on Spin Hall Effect, and on Phase Transitions in Quantum Dots
 This is a mixed session.
Thurs, Feb. 12
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Sergio Ulloa
 "Tunable quantum phase transition in a Kondo system."
Fri, Feb. 13
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Eugene Hwang, Maria Vozmediano
 Informal session on Graphene:
Maria: Infrared Nature of Undoped Graphene (Is Graphene a Fermi Liquid?)
Eugene: Transport in Graphene

Week of February 16 - 20

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tues, Feb. 17
 10:00AM
 AUD
 Guillaume Gervais
 "Experiments for 1D/2D Physics on a Chip"
 Experimentalist of the week
Wed, Feb. 18
 1:30PM
 AUD
 Sankar Das Sarma, Rudolph Morf
 The Nu=5/2 Qubit
Why and how? Sankar
What makes us hopeful? Rudolf
 Note this is a PM talk
Thurs. Feb. 19
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Kun Yang and Ziqiang Wang
 Informal session on nu=5/2
Kun: "Thermopower as a Possible Bulk Probe of Non-Abelian Quasiparticle Statistics"
Ziqiang: "Pairing in Even Denominator Fractional Quantum Hall States"
Fri. Feb. 20
 10:00AM
 AUD
 Vijay Shenoy and Soo-Jong Rey
 Informal session on graphene
Vijay: "Graphene: A High Temperature Superconductor?"
Soo-Jong:"Engineering Graphene from String Theory"
 Note location.

Week of February 23 - 27

Date
 Speaker
Mon, Feb. 23
 New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference
Tues, Feb. 24
 New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference
Wed, Feb. 25
 New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference
Thurs. Feb. 26
 New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference
Fri. Feb. 27
 New Directions in Low Dimensional Electron Systems Conference

Week of March 2-6

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon., March 2
 2:00PM
 SSR
 Yigal Meir, Achim Rosch
 Informal Session
Yigal: "The 0.7 Anomaly in Quantum Point Contacts"
Achim: "Transport in 1-d systems: role of approximate symmetries"
 Note time. 0 and 1D systems
Tues., March 3
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Ian Spielman
 "2D Bose-Hubbard Systems at NIST: A Progress Report"
 Experimentalist of the week. Note location.
Wed. March 4
 10:00am
 SSR
 Donna Sheng, Shankar
 Donna: "Numerical Studies Probing Non-Abelian FQHE at 5/2"
Shankar: "A New Fermionic Fixed Point and Test of Hertz-Millis
Thurs. March 5
 10:00AM
 AUD
 Cristiana Morais-Smith
 "Cold Atoms as Condensed Matter Simulators"

Week of March 9-13

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Mon., March 9
 2:00PM
 SSR
 Randy Hulet
Akira
Furusaki
 Randy: Paring between Fermions with population imbalance in 3D and 1D
Nematic and chiral ordered phases in frustrated spin chains in magnetic field
 Informal session, mixing topics
Tues., March 10
 10:00AM
 AUD
 Randy Hulet
 Damping of superfluid transport by disorder
 Experimentalist of the week. Note location.
Wed. March 11
 10:00am
 SSR
 Jason Ho
 New theoretical developments in interacting Fermi gases
Thurs. March 12
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Mona Berciu
Kirill Shtengel
 The Role of Anions in Pnitides
 informal session

Week of March 16-20

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Thursday, March 19
 10:00am
 SSR
 Kun Yang
 Supersymmetry and other (hopefully) interesting things in Bose-Fermi mixtures
 Informal session. Anyone willing to speak is welcome.





This is March Meeting week for APS.

Week of March 23-27

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Monday, March 23
 2:00pm
 SSR
 Yuval Gefen
 From transmission phase to quantum phase transition: Transport through quantum dots unraveled
Tues., March 24
 10:00am
 AUD
 Marc Bockrath
 Correlated Electron Phenomena in Carbon Nanotubes
 Experimentalist of the week.
Wed., March 25
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Anton Akhmerov
D. Yoshioka
 How to send current through a charge-neutral mode

Edge state of zigzag graphene nanoribon -- wave function and current
 Informal session
Thur. March 26
 10:00am
 SSR
 Steven Simon
 Bilayer Quantum Hall Effect at Nu=1/2+1/2 : BCS pairing of Composite Fermions and Composite Bosons too

Week of March 30 - April 3

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Monday, March 30
 12:15pm
 AUD
 Steve Simon
 Topological states in condensed matter
 Director's Luncheon Talk
Tuesday, March 31
 10:30am
 AUD
 Jan von Delft
 Nonequilibrium Dynamics of an Kondo Exciton
 Please note that we will start 30 minutes later than the regular schedule
Wed, April 1
 10:00am
 SSR
 Smitha Vishveshwara
Fabian Heidrich-Meisner
 Anyons in the Lowest Landau Level

The sudden expansion of interacting fermions in 1D optical lattices
 Informal session
Thur., April 2
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Milica Milovanovic
 Wave functions and superfluid disordering of the quantum Hall bilayer

Week of April 6 - April 10

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...






Tuesday, April 7
 10:00am
 AUD
 Woowon Kang
 Temporal Dynamics of Quantum Hall States in the Second Landau Level
 Experimentalist of the week
Wed, April 8
 10:00am
 SSR
 Ivan Gonzalez

Vladimir Yudson
 Entanglement Entropy in Heisenberg Spin Ladders

Delocalization by disorder in layered systems
Thur., April 9
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Felix von Oppen

Gil Refael
 Synthetic electric fields in graphene and carbon nanotubes

Sagnac interference in carbon nanotube loops

Week of April 13 - 17

Date
 Speaker
Mon, April 13
 Graphene Week
Tues, April 14
 Graphene Week
Wed, April 15
 Graphene Week
Thurs. April 16
 Graphene Week
Fri. April 17
 Graphene Week

Week of April 20 - April 24

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...






Tuesday, April 21
 10:00am
 AUD
 Eugene Demler

Victor M. Yakovenko
 Nonequlibrium dynamics of ultracold atoms

Angular oscillations in a tilted magnetic field in layered metals and
bilayers: Q2D, Q1D, graphite/graphene, etc






Thur., April 23
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Hao Wang
 Three body interaction and disorder effect on 5/2 quantum Hall state
 talk will be followed by informal discussions on FQHE. Anyone is welcome to speak.







Week of April 27 - May 1

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...






Tuesday, April 28
 10:00am
 SSR
 Ribhu Kaul

Rodrigo Pereira
 The Interplay of Quantum Criticality and Geometry Frustration in CoNb_2O_6

Spectral functions of gapless one-dimensional systems






Thur., April 30
 10:00AM
 SSR
 Mikhail Raikh
 Anomalous sensitivity of high-mobility interacting 2D electron gas
to a weak magnetic field






Week of May 4 - May 8

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tuesday, May 5
 10:00 am
 AUD
 Aron Pinczuk
 Quantum Hall Phases "Seen" as Quantum Fluids
 Experimental talk of the week
Wed., May 6
 10:00am
 MSR
 Sasha Balatsky
Michael Pustilnik
 Dirac Materials
Quantum explosion in one dimension"
Thur, May 7
 10:00am
 SSR
 Qimiao Si
 Quantum Criticality out of Equilibrium







Week of May 11- May 17

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tuesday, May 12
 10:00 am
 AUD
 Eugene Mishchenko
 Spin-Hall effect in a two-dimensional electron gas and on surfaces of topological insulators






Thur, May 14
 10:00am
 SSR
 Jairo Sinova

Igor Lerner
 Spin injection Hall effect: a new member of the spintronic family

Does a bad metal become good superinsulator

Week of May 18- May 22

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tuesday, May 19
 10:00 am
 AUD
 Amir Yacoby

Oskar Vafek
 Breaking of symmetries in suspended bilayer graphene

Interaction and disorder effects in graphene
 experimentalist of the week
Wed., May 20
 3:00pm
 AUD
 Amir Yacoby
 Nanoscale magnetic field sensing using a single electron spin in diamond
Thur, May 21
 10:00am
 AUD
 Simon Trebst

Sudhakar Yarlagadda
 Interacting anyons in topological quantum liquids

Supersolidity in a Bose-Holstein model








Week of May 25- May 29

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Tuesday, May 26
 10:00 am
 AUD
 L. Glazman
 Phenomenology of Generic One-Dimensional Quantum Liquids
Wed., May 27
 10:00am
 MSR
 Achim Rosch

R. Winkler
 Skyrmions in MnSi

Trigonal Band Structure and Time-Reversal Invariance in Graphene
Thur, May 28
 10:00am
 SSR
 B. Shklovskii
 How do ions go through biological ions channels and nanopores?









Week of June 1- June 5

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Monday, June 1
 2:00pm
 SSR
 Zahid Hasan
 Direct detection of topological order in topological insulators via imaging of spin-textured edge-states
Tuesday, June 2
 10:00 am
 AUD
 Joel Moore
 Topological insulator: magnetoelectric coupling and Majorana excitations
Wed., June 3
 10:00am
 MSR
 Julia Meyer

Misha Fogler
 Subband Transitions in Interacting Quantum Wires

Coulomb Gap in 1D
Thur, June 4
 10:00am
 SSR
 Andreas Ludwig
 Classification of Topological Insulators and Superconductors
Friday, June 5
 10:00am
 SSR
 Zahid Hasan
 First observation of Spin-Helical Dirac fermion modes and future direction of research on Topological Insulators


Week of June 8- June 12

Date
 Time
 Place*
 Speaker
 Title
 Comments, Links,...
Monday, June 8
 2:00pm
 SSR
 Alex Seidel
 Valence Bond States on the Kagome Lattice: Linear Independence and RVB-Hamiltonian
Tuesday, June 9
 10:00 am
 AUD
 Hari Manoharan
 Peeking at the Berry Phase in Dirac Materials
 Experimentalist of the week
Wed., June 10
 10:00am
 MSR
 Duncan Haldane
 "Hall viscosity" and intrinsic metric of imcompressible fractional Hall fluids
Wed. June 10
 12:30PM
 SSR
 Hari Manoharan
 Peeking at the Berry Phase in Dirac Materials, Part II
Thur, June 11
 10:00am
 SSR
 Rahul Roy

Fiona J Burnell
 TBA

Fractional Quantum Hall physics via staging transitions in bulk 3D crystals